Howdy everybody. This is my first post to this list. I have been recently working with porting Mono/C# applications using Gtk + to Windows. My work is more of a test case to see what steps in the process are missing and preventing wide-scale use of Gtk+ on Windows. Obviously, if lots of people used Gtk+ on Windows, we'd have a much easier time of porting those applications to Linux (or running them outright). So, that's my mission. To make it as easy as possible.
In the course of that I have found no less than 4 different installations of Gtk+ for Win32. All with various levels of differences. Some install to C:\GTK, some install to C:\Program Files\Common Files \GTK. Some C:\Program Files\GTK. Some are included alongside the applications that use them, a private copy. Each of these of course comes along with it's own stack extending down to gettext. This is non-optimal. As a developer working in a company with the intent of programming a cross platform application, I have no place to turn to a proper Gtk+ redistributable. I have no set of instructions describing what I should build and where I should put it. I don't really want to do this work myself. To be honest my ideal situation is this: a) Go to gtk.org, download the gtk.msm file (Windows Installer Merge Module.) b) Add the MSM to my setup project in Visual Studio. c) Build. d) Distribute. To reach that goal I started work on creating some WIX installer files for Gtk+ and family. And then I realized something. Where should I put these files? My goal is to build a gettext.wix, a gtk+.wix, a pango.wix, and the entire stack, and have these .wix files included in the upstream CVS of each independent project. It would not be appropriate for gettext.wix to install into a folder structure with "GTK" in the name. Upstream would never accept it. So what's to be done? What are you all doing? Are you maintaining your own complete set of compilation scripts? Installing into your own prefix? What is the proper way forward? Obviously what I am doing is completely aligned with this project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
